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Rafael Capurro - John Holgate (eds.). Messages and Messengers. Angeletics as an Approach to the Phenomenology of Communication. München 2011.

Audio

• Rafael Capurro: Angeletics. A Message Theory. ZKM 06.03.2003 (57.21 Min.)
  

Articles & Lectures

• Thanks and Responses 2016
• BITrum: Angeletics 2016
• BITrum: Message 2016
  
• Apud Arabes. Notes on Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew Roots of the Concept of Information 2014
• Die Botschaft des Buddha 2013
• Wer ist der Mensch? Überlegungen zu einer vergleichenden Theorie der Agenten  2012
• Beyond Humanisms 2010/2012
  
• Messages and Mesengers: Foreword 2011
• Messages and Messengers: Introduction 2011
  
• A Dialogue on Intercultural Angeletics 2010
  
• Toward a Comparative Theory of Agents 2010
  
• Past, present and future of the concept of information 2009
  
• Leben in der message society. Eine medizinethische Perspektive 2009
  
• Pasado, presente y futuro de la noción de información 2008
  
• Interpreting the Digital Human 2008
  
• Knowldege Map of Information Science 2006
• Hablar de amor 2006
  
• Beständiges Wissen? 2006
  
• Führt die digitale Weltvernetzung zu einer globalen Informationsethik? 2005
  
• Towards an Ontological Foundation of Information Ethics 2005
  
• Knowledge Map of Information Science: Rafael Capurro's Responses to Chaim Zins 2005
  
• Was ist ein Bild? 2004
  
• Nike 2004
  
• Die Rückkehr des Lokalen 2003
• Angeletics - A Message Theory 2003
• On Hermeneutics, Angeletics, and Information Technology: Questions and Tentative Answers 2003
• Passions of the Internet (See also here) 2003
  
• The Concept of Information 2003
  
• Passions of the Internet and the Art of Living 2003
  
• Epistemología y Ciencia de la Información 2003
  
• Philosophical Presuppositions of Producing and Patenting Organic Life 2002
• Gestión del Caos: iniciación a la conflictología.  Universitat Oberta de Catalunya 2002
• Die Lehre Japans. Theorie und Praxis der Botschaft bei Franz Xaver 2002
  
• Menschengerechte Information oder informationsgerechter Mensch? 2002
• Operari sequitur esse. Zur existential-ontologischen Begründung der Netzethik 2002
  
• Ansätze zur Begründung einer Netzethik 2002
• Emanzipation oder Gewalt. Wolfgang Sützl interpretiert Gianni Vattimo 2001
• Theorie der Botschaft  2001
  
• Entwurf einer digitalen Ontologie 2001
  
• Medien(R-)evolutionen 2000
• Was ist Angeletik? 2000
• Qué es la angelética? 2000
• What is Angeletics? 2000
  
• Hermeneutik im Vorblick. Einführung in die Angeletik 2000
  
• Ethik im Bilde 1999
• Ich bin ein Weltbürger aus Sinope. Vernetzung als Lebenskunst 1998/99
  
• Stable Knowledge? 1997
  
• On the Genealogy of Information 1996
• Genealogie der Information 1995 
• Was ist Metaphysik? Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis zwischen Metaphysik und Wahsinn 1994/95
• Ein Grinsen ohne Katze. Von der Vergleichbarkeit zwischen 'künstlicher Intelligenz' und 'getrennten Intelligenzen'1993
• Engel, Menschen und Computer 1988
  

 

Towards a Phenomenology of Communication

Source: Rafael Capurro & John Holgate (eds.): Messages and Messengers Angeletics as an Approach to the Phenomenology of Communication. München: Fink 2011: Introduction, pp. 28-30.
 

Brazil

Aldo de Albuquerque Barreto (digital culture)

Canada

Robert Babe (telecommunication and mediating culture)
Marshall McLuhan (‘the medium is the message,’ media as ‘extensions of man’)
Harold Innes (media ecology)

Chile 

Francisco Varela (embodied mind, logic of complementarity)
Humberto Maturana (autopoiesis)

Czech Republic

Vilem Flusser (Communicology: messages and codes)

France  
Daniel Bougnoux (enunciation, Lat. nuntius, communication / information)
Régis Debray (mediology)
Jacques Derrida (postcard)
Jean-Luc Nancy (messenger and philosophy)
Michel Serres (angelology and media theory)

Germany
Hans-Georg Gadamer (hermeneutics)
Jurgen Habermas (communicative rationality)
Christoph Hubig (mediator)
Friedrich Kittler (technical mediology)
Klaus Krippendorf (messenger)
Niklas Luhmann (system theory)
Sybille Krämer (metaphysics of mediality)
Niklas Luhmann (communicative action)
Wulf Österreicher (messengers, messages)
Matthias Rath (media theory)
Mike Sandbothe (media philosophy)
Peter Sloterdijk (spheres, messengers, angels)
Horst Wenzel (messengers and messages)

Italy

Giorgio Agamben (angelology)
Gianni Vattimo (hermeneutics)

Romania

Andrei Gabriel Pleşu (angelology)

Russia 
Roman Jakobson (six part model of linguistic messaging)

U.K. 
Colin Cherry (the cocktail party effect)
Raymond Williams (cultural communication)

USA 
Gregory Bateson (the ‘double bind’, the ‘map and the territory’)
Thomas J. Froehlich (information ethics)
Harold Garfinkel (conversational interaction, reflexivity and indexicality)
Erving Goffman (social presentation of self, face)
George A. Miller (Seven plus or minus one)
The Palo Alto Group (communication psychology)
John Durham Peters (“Speaking into the Air”) 
Avital Ronell (“The Telephone Book”)
Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver (“A Mathematical Theory of Communication”)
Paul Watzlawick (five axioms of communication, digital / analogue modality)

In a sense all the above theories represent retreating paradigms of communication which have been overtaken by the dramatic changes in computing, social media and networking in the early 21st century. Building on them however we aspire to a new paradigm of communication, based on a deep ontic understanding both of messaging as a phenomenon and of its relationship to informational phenomena in our rapidly changing cultural environment.  We look forward to your participation in a lively debate about the themes and issues raised in “Messengers and Messages.” Our goals in preparing this publication were fourfold:

1. To enunciate and elaborate the scope of angeletics as a cogent and comprehensive approach to messaging which is applicable across the arts sciences and technology;
2. To point the way to specific areas of research and praxis where messaging takes place and to suggest relevant topics and projects;
3. To open a new perspective on contemporary debates about the relationship between information and communication, the nature and role of ‘media’ and the problematic nature of posthumanism digitisation and virtual space;
4. To establish conceptual links with the nascent disciplines of information ethics and robotics and to develop a new paradigm for hermeneutic phenomenology based on the experience of messaging in society culture and the life-world.

LEXICONS I. GREEK II. LATIN

revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.
with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie.
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

ANGELIA / ANGELOS / ANGELLO

PSEUDANGELEO / PSEUDANGELIA / PSEUDANGELOS

ἀγγελία , Ion. and Ep. ἀγγειο-ίη , ἡ, (ἄγγελος)

A.message, tidings, as well the substance as the conveyance thereof, Il.18.17, Od.2.30, etc.;
“ἀ. λέγουσα τάδε” Hdt.2.114;
ἀγγελίην φάτο, ἀπόφασθε, ἀπέειπε, Il.18.17, 9.422, 7.416;
“φέρειν” 15.174;
“πέμπειν” Hdt.2.114;
“ἐσπέμπειν” 3.69;
“τὰς ἀ. ἐσφέρειν” 1.114, 3.77:
-ἐμὴ ἀ. a report of me, concerning me, Il.19.337;
ἀ. τινός a message about a person or thing,
ἀγγελίην πατρὸς φέρει ἐρχομένοιο news of thy father's coming, Od.1.408;
ἀνέρος αἴθονος ἀ. S.Aj.222; “ἀ. τῆς Χίου ἀφικνεῖται” Th.8.15;
“ἦλθε ἀ. τῶν πόλεων ὅτι ἀφεστᾶσι” Id.1.61: “ἀ. ἦλθον ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων” X.Cyr.6.2.14;
with Verbs of motion, “ἀγγελίην ἐλθεῖν” Il.11.140: Ep. in gen., “τευἀγγελίης . . ἤλυθες” Il.13.252; “ἀγγελίης οἴχνεσκε” 15.640; ἤλυθε σεῦ ἕνεκ᾽ ἀγγελίης (i.e. ἀγγελίης σοῦ ἕνεκα) 3.206;
“ἀγγελίης πωλεῖται” Hes.Th.781:—wrongly expl. by Sch.Il., Apollon.Lex. as a masc. Subst. ἀγγελίης.

2. announcement, proclamation, Pi.P.2.4: command, order, h.Cer.448, Pi.O.3.28, cf. Od.5.150, 7.263.

3. Ἀ. personified as daughter of Hermes, Pi. O.8.82.

II. messenger, Ἶρις ἀ. v.l. Hes.Th.781.

ἀγγελια-φόρος , Ion. ἀγγελιηφ- , ον,

A.messenger, Hdt.1.120, Arist.Mu.398a31, Luc. Sacr.8, etc.: esp. Persian chamberlain, Hdt.3.118.

ἀγγελικός , ή, όν,

A.of or for a messenger, “ῥῆσις” Phryn.PS p.45 B.

b. conveying information, πάθος, of sensation, Gal.19.378.

2. angelic, “τάξις, νοῦς” Procl. in Ti.1.341, 3.126 D.; “γένος” Hierocl.in CA 2p.423M. Adv. “-κῶς”Procl.in Ti.3.192 D.: opp. δαιμονίως, Id.in Cra.p.71 P.

II. ἀ. ὄρχησις Sicilian pantomimic dance at banquets, Ath. 14.629e, cf. Poll.4.103, and v. ἄγγελος 11; perh. from Ἄγγελος a name of Hecate, cf. Ath. l.c., Poll. l.c., Hsch.

ἄγγελος , ὁ, ἡ,

A .messenger, envoy, Il.2.26, etc.; “δι᾽ ἀγγέλων ὁμιλέειν τινί” Hdt.5.92.ζ́, cf. SIG229.25 (Erythrae):— prov., Ἀράβιος ἄ., of a loquacious person, Men.32.

2. generally, one that announces or tells, e.g. of birds of augury, Il.24.292,296; Μουσῶν ἄγγελος, of a poet, Thgn.769; “ἄγγελε ἔαρος . . χελιδοῖ” Simon.74; ἄ. ἄφθογγος, of a beacon, Thgn.549; of the nightingale, ὄρνις . . Διὸς ἄ. S.El.149: c. gen. rei, “ἄ. κακῶν ἐμῶν” Id.Ant.277; “ἄγγελον γλῶσσανλόγων” E.Supp.203; “αἴσθησις ἡμῖν ἄ.” Plot.5.3.3; neut. pl., “ἄγγελα νίκης” Nonn.D.34.226.

3. angel, LXX Ge.28.12, al., Ev.Matt.1.24, al., Ph.2.604, etc.

4. in later philos., semi-divine being, “ἡλιακοὶ ἄ.” Jul.Or.4.141b, cf. Iamb.Myst.2.6, Procl. in R.2.243K.; “ἄ. καὶ ἀρχάγγελοι” Theol.Ar.43.10, cf. Dam.Pr.183, al.: also in mystical and magical writings, Herm. ap. Stob.1.49.45, PMag.Lond.46.121, etc.

II. title of Artemis at Syracuse, Hsch.

ἀγγέλλω , (ἄγγελος): impf.

A.“ἀγγέλλεσκον” Hsch.: Ep. and Ion. fut. “ἀγγελέω” Il.9.617, Hdt., Att. ἀγγελῶ, Dor. -ίω （ἀν-) Tab.Heracl.1.118: aor. 1 “ἤγγειλα” Hom., Att.: pf. “ἤγγελκα” Plb.35.4.2, (κατ-) Lys.25.30, (εἰσ-) Lycurg.1, (περι-) D.21.4:—Med. (v. infra): aor. ἠγγείλαμην （ἐπ-) Hdt.6.35, Pl.Grg.458d:—Pass., fut. ἀγγελθήσομαι （ἀπ-) D.19.324, later ἀγγελήσομαι （ἀν-) LXX Ps.21(22).30: aor. “ἠγγέλθην” Hdt., Att.: pf. “ἤγγελμαι” A.Ch.774, Th.8.97: plpf. ἄγγελτο v.l. in Hdt. 7.37:—aor. 2 Pass. ἠγγέλην is found IG1.27b (ἐπ-), E.IT932, and became usual in Hellenistic Gk., cf. LXX Jo.2.2 (ἀπ-), Plu.Ant.68, Hdn.3.7.1, etc.: aor. 2 Act. ἤγγελον is rare even in late writers, as (παρ-) App.BC1.121 without impf. as v. l., though in AP7.614 (Agath.) ἀγγελέτην is required by the metre:—bear a message, “ὦρτο δὲἾρις . . ἀγγελέουσα” Il.8.409; “τινί” Od.4.24, 15.458: c. inf., οἵ κε . . κείνοις ἀγγείλωσι . . οἶκόνδε νέεσθαι may bring them word to return home, 16.350, cf. EM6.52: c. acc. inf., “κήρυκες δ᾽ . . ἀγγελλόντων. . γέροντας λέξασθαι” Il.8.517.

2. c. acc. rei, announce, report, “ἐσθλά” Il.10.448; “φάος ἠοῦς” Od.13.94; “Ποσειδάωνι πάντατάδε” Il. 15.159:—in Prose, “μή τι νεώτερον ἀγγέλλεις” ; Pl.Prt.31cb; prov., οὐ πόλεμον ἀγγέλλεις'that's good news', Id.Phdr.242b; “ἀγγέλλωμεν ἐς πόλιν τάδε” ; E.Or.1539; “πρὸς τίν᾽ ἀγγεῖλαί μεχρὴ λόγους” ; Id.Supp. 399.

3. c. acc. pers., bring news of . . , “εἴ κέ μιν ἀγγείλαιμι” Od.14.120; later, “ἀ. περί τινος” S.El.1111:—dependent clauses are added with a Conj., “ἤγγειλ᾽ ὅττι ῥά οἱ πόσις ἔκτοθι μίμνε” Il.22.439; ἀ. ὡς . . E. IT704, D.18.169; ὁθούνεκα . . S.El.47:—also in part., ἦ καὶ θανόντ᾽ ἤγγειλαν; ib.1452; “Κῦρονἐπιστρατεύοντα . . ἤγγειλεν” X.An.2.3.19, cf. Cyr.6.2.15; with “ὡς, πατέρα τὸν σὸν ἀγγελῶν ὡςοὐκέτ᾽ ὄντα” S.OT955; “ἤγγειλας ὡς τεθνηκότα” Id.El.1341.

II. Med., only pres., Τεύκρψ ἀγγέλλομαι εἶναι φίλος I announce myself to him as a friend, Id.Aj.1376.

III. Pass., to be reported of, “ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖον” Th.6.34: c. part., “ζῶν ἢ θανὼν ἀγγέλλεται” S.Tr.73, cf. E. Hec.591, Th.3.16, X.HG4.3.13: c. inf., “ἤγγελται ἡ μάχη ἰσχυρὰ γεγονέναι” Pl.Chrm.153b, cf. X. Cyr.5.3.30:—ἠγγέλθη τοῖς στρατηγοῖς, ὅτι φεύγοιεν that . . , Id.HG1.1.27:—“ἐπὶ τοῖς ἠγγελμένοις”Th.8.97. (ἀπ-αγγέλλω is more common in Oratt.)

nuntĭo (nunc- ), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. nuntius,

I.to announce, declare, report, relate, narrate, make known, inform, give intelligence of, etc. (cf.: narro, indico, trado, scribo, dico, certiorem facio, etc.).

I. In gen., alike of verbal and of written communications; constr. acc. of thing and dat. of person; for the acc. may stand an acc. and inf., a clause with ut or ne and subj., or subj. alone, or with de and abl.; for the dat. an acc. with ad(ante-class.); in pass., both personal and impersonal, the latter most usually, esp. in perf. nuntiatum est, with subj.-clause.

A. Act.

1. With acc. of thing (dat. of person): “non dubito quin celerius tibi hoc rumor, quam ullius nostrumlitterae nuntiārint,” Cic. Att. 1, 15, 1: “horas quinque puer nondum tibi nuntiat,” Mart. 8, 67, 1: “senatui ac populo victoriam,” Suet. Ner. 1: “ut nuntiarem nuntium exoptabilem,” Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 67: “voluptatem magnam,” Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 10: “quid est, quod percipi possit, si ne sensus quidemvera nuntiant,” Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 79: “talia tibi,” Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 6: “horas,” to tell the time of day, Mart. 8, 67, 1; 10, 48, 1; cf. Tac. A. 15, 30.—

2. With clause: “qui nuntiarent, prope omnes naves afflictas esse,” Caes. B. G. 5, 10; 4, 11, 6: “nuntiateregi vestro, regem Romanum deos facere testes,” Liv. 1, 22, 7: “litterae tuae laeta continebant, quod tein urbe teneri nuntiabant,” Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 1: “visus est talis, qualem esse eum tuae mihi litteraenuntiārant,” Cic. Att. 1, 19, 11.—With ut, ne, or subj.: “Catilinae nuntiare, ne eum Lentulus aliiqueterrerent,” Sall. C. 48, 4: “deligit centurionem qui nuntiaret regibus ne armis disceptarent,” Tac. A. 2, 65: “nuntiatum, ut prodiret,” Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 358: “Vibius nuntiavit Pisoni Romam ad dicendamcausam veniret,” Tac. A. 2, 79: “jubet nuntiare miserae, dicendam ad causam postero die adesset,” id. ib. 11, 37; Dig. 49, 14, 44.—

3. With inf.: “ergo nuntiat patri abicere spem et uti necessitate,” Tac. A. 16, 11 init.—

4. Absol.: Ly. Salutem multam dicito patrono. Cu. Nuntiabo, I will do so, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 38.—

B. Passive constructions.

1. Pers.: “utinam meus nunc mortuos pater ad me nuntietur,” Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 76: “aquatores preminuntiantur,” Caes. B. C. 1, 73: “crebris motibus terrae ruere in agris nuntiabantur tecta,” Liv. 4, 21, 5: “(tribuni) summā vi restare nuntiabantur,” id. 4, 58, 4; 22, 54, 9: “hoc adeo celeriter fecit, ut simuladesse, et venire nuntiaretur,” Caes. B. G. 3, 36: “jamjam adesse ejus equites nuntiabantur,” id. ib. 1, 14; Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 1.—

2. Impers.: “conantibus, priusquam id effici posset, adesse Romanos nuntiatur,” Caes. B. G. 6, 4, 1: “Caesari nuntiatur Sulmonenses cupere, etc.,” id. B. C. 1, 18, 1: “nuntiatur Afranio magnos commeatusad flumen constitisse,” id. ib. 1, 51, 1: “non dubie mihi nuntiabatur Parthos transīsse Euphratem,” Cic. Fam. 15, 1, 1; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 34, § 87; id. Mil. 18, 48: “nuntiatum est nobis a M. Varrone, venisseeum Romā,” Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1: “cum paulo esset de hoc incommodo nuntiatum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 16, § 41: “nuntiatumque Hannibali est,” Liv. 23, 19, 11; Cic. Fam. 11, 12, 1; Tac. A. 2, 79.—Absol.: “occisoSex. Roscio, qui primus Ameriam nuntiat?” who will be the first bearer of the tidings? Cic. Rosc. Am. 34, 96: “bene, ita me di ament, nuntias,” you bring good news, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 20.—

II. In partic., in jurid. Lat., to denounce, inform against: “causam pecuniae fisco,” Dig. 49, 14, 39; cf.: “cum heresdecessisset, exstitit qui bona nuntiaret,” ib. 29, 5, 22: opus novum, to inform against a work undertaken by another to one's injury: “opus novum, si tibi nuntiavero,” ib. 4, 7, 3; 16; 43, 20, 3.

A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

nuntĭus , a, um, adj. perh. contr. from noventius, from obsol. novēre, to make new; v. novus.